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The folly of drifting back to Cold War values has negative consequences for economic futures in both Australia and the economies of ASEAN countries. Strategic fears of an emergent China offset the national consensus on […]

My wife made an off-the-cuff remark the other night: “It could be worse. What if Stephen Miller was the Secretary of War?” It was one of those throwaway lines she delivers while passing the salt, […]

In the same week that the APS AI Plan 2025 was released, charting a bold course for the modernisation of the Australian Public Service, the Australian Government has taken its next decisive step in the […]

Have you ever noticed how certain numbers seem to form the hidden scaffolding of our world? They appear in the swirl of a seashell, the structure of our bodies, and the foundations of our societies. […]

By Walt Zlotow To get confirmed as Trump’s Secretary of Defense (War to Trump), Pete Hegseth had to swear off drinking, with which he clearly had a major problem. Senate Republicans believed his promise to […]

In a secure room in Washington last week, Australian officials watched what the world would soon see. A small Venezuelan fisherman’s tinnie drifts, already incinerated by a first missile. Two survivors cling to a piece […]

Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-traffickers making passage on the sea from […]

The promise of cryptocurrency was one of liberation – freedom from central banks, from government oversight, from the traditional financial gatekeepers. In reality, it has become the ultimate tool for those very gatekeepers, perfected into […]

When journalists internalise the state, the state no longer needs to silence them. Australia has discovered the most polite form of censorship ever devised. No jackboots, no warrants, no midnight raids; just a quiet conversation, […]